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Comparative Analysis of Erickson's and Orem's Theories

and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...

Advance Directive Uses

before intubating her, but the woman needed an airway cleared right away. Only after restoring breath to the woman did they learn...

The Parish Nurse and Advanced Practice Nursing

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

Medical Law and Refusing Consent

it is these issues of autonomy and personal rights that are concerned the sanctity of life is a secondary issue and cases such as ...

Women, Literacy and Health Care Critique of “A Winning Combination: Women, Literacy and Participation in Health Care”

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

Arguing in Favor of Self Directed Euthanasia

criteria in an advanced directive or the individuals cognizance at the time of their decision. The first task that presents...

The Medical Argument for Legalized Marijuana

to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...

4 Nursing Metaparadigms Defined

how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...

An Ethics Case Study

any love relationship can be hurtful enters the picture. With this rationale, one can see that to have an affair with an ex-patien...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Student Ethics Article

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Terminal Care Patients, Families, Nursing Staff, and Effective Communication

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

Patient Education Assessment

to take insulin only when his blood glucose level was above the value established by his physician. The nurse laid out all ...

Nursing Home Care for Dementia Patients: Speaker Notes:

This paper consists of the speaker notes for a PowerPoint presentation that pertains to the a student's volunteer experience. The ...

Reducing Re-hospitalization of CHF Patients

This paper presents the speaker notes to an eighteen page PowerPoint presentation, khteleCHF.ppt, which pertains to a project that...

Throughput and Management Strategies, Emergency Departments

This research paper addresses the issue of patient throughput in overcrowded Emergency Departments (EDs). Management and throughpu...

Decreasing Re-Hospitalization in CHF Patients

This research paper pertains to a proposal for a capstone project in which telemonitoring and skilled nursing visits are utilized ...

Morbidity and Mortality, Introduction of ART on HIV

This research paper presents a proposed project that address the introduction of antiretroviral therapy in regards to treating HIV...

Patient-Centered Medical Homes an Article Analysis

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of the article titled Guiding Transformation: How Medical Practices Can Become Patient-Centere...

Breach of PHI Confidentiality

This paper discusses patient personal health information (PHI) in terms of a major breach in confidentiality. HIPAA regulations an...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...

Ethics and Disclosing a Terminal Prognosis

This paper pertains to withhold a terminal prognosis from the patient and the ethicality of this action. Four pages in length, fou...

Proposal for the Application of Collaborative Practices in Health Care Provision

The paper, which is written in the style of a White Paper, proposes an increased level of collaborative practices between medical ...

Overcoming Unrealistic Fears Preventing Early Screening for Prostate Problems

This paper compares and contrasts the facts verses the misperceptions of prostate problems. The author argues that physicians are...

Mandatory Overtime, An Issue that Endangers Patients

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

A Review: Bae (2011)

This research paper presents a review of the research conducted by Bae (2011). This study consists of a systematic review of empir...

Cyber Attacks in Healthcare

Few people realize how vulnerable healthcare operations systems, from electronic health records to connected medical devices, are ...

Heart Failure and Telehealth

This research paper presents an descriptive discussion of scholarly literature that pertains to telehealth technology and its appl...

Overview of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

This paper presents a type 2 diabetes mellitus overview that describes its pathology and its effect on specific organ systems, as ...